While Olivia Abbott strikes to city, she's excited to hitch the cheerleading staff and make new buddies. Then she meets Ivy Vega. in the beginning, Ivy, light and dressed all in black, appears like Olivia's contrary. Then the ladies glance past the glittery crimson blush and thick black eyeliner to find they're identical—identical twins!

While a boy strikes together with his relatives to an even bigger citadel, he reveals that a few issues approximately existence within the new position are diverse, a few issues are a similar, and he will get more well-off the longer he's there.

Bear's cave fills with animal acquaintances as he sleeps during this vintage ebook from big apple occasions bestselling crew of Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman. In a collapse the woods, in his deep, darkish lair, throughout the lengthy, chilly wintry weather sleeps a superb brown endure. one after the other, an entire host of alternative animals and birds locate their manner out of the chilly and into Bear's cave to hot up.

Is she not beau-ti-ful? ” cried their good, honest father, who, as we have already intimated, had an exceedingly common-sensible way of looking at matters. “Do not tell me of making live figures out of snow. Come, wife; this little stranger must not stay out in the bleak air a moment longer. We will bring her into the parlour; and you shall give her a supper of warm bread and milk, and make her as comfortable as you can. ” So saying, this honest and very kind-hearted man was going toward the little white damsel, with the best intentions in the world.

It is our adopted child Undine; there is no breaking her of her childish ways, though she is eighteen years old now. ” re-joined his wife, shaking her head. “When you come home from fishing, or from a journey, her playful nonsense may be pleasant enough. ” “Well, well,” said the good man, “You feel toward Undine as I do toward the lake. Though its waves are apt enough to burst my banks and my nets, yet I love them for all that, and so do you love our pretty wench, with all her plaguey tricks. ” “Why, one cannot be really angry with her, to be sure,” said the dame, smiling.

It made this kind and careful mother shiver only to look at those small feet, with nothing in the world on them, except a very thin pair of white slippers. Nevertheless, airily as she was clad, the child seemed to feel not the slightest inconvenience from the cold, but danced so lightly over the snow that the tips of her toes left hardly a print in its surface; while Violet could but just keep pace with her, and Peony’s short legs compelled him to lag behind. Once, in the course of their play, the strange child placed herself between Violet and Peony, and taking a hand of each, skipped merrily forward, and they along with her.